🇬🇧🇨🇳 crater - 火山口 : English Lesson

Meaning of "crater" ("火山口"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A crater is a big round bowl-shaped hole in the ground, often at the top of a volcano where lava can come out, or where something like a meteorite smashed into Earth and left a giant dent.

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Aliens probably look at our bedrooms from space and think, “Wow, what a messy crater zone.”

I dropped my scoop of ice cream, and now there’s a tragic chocolate crater on the sidewalk.

When the basketball hit the garden, it didn’t score points, but it did score a big muddy crater.

I sneezed into my bowl of cereal and created a milk crater surrounded by floating cornflake islands.

The Moon is covered with craters made by space rocks crashing into it.

At dawn a child peered into the volcano crater, heart loud. A small bird landed on the crater rim, then slipped and skittered into the crater light. They leaned close; warm air rose from the crater and a tiny green shoot clung to its side. The child smiled, touched the rim, and left the crater calm.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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